The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced on Saturday that an Israeli strike in Al-Kfour industrial zone in the Nabatieh region, in the south of the country, caused the deaths of at least ten people, including a woman and her two children.
According to the ministry’s updated toll, the number of dead has risen to ten, all of Syrian nationality, including a woman and her two children. Five other people were also injured, including three Syrians, two of whom are in critical condition, a Lebanese citizen and a Sudanese national.
Saturday’s strike is considered one of the deadliest in over ten months of violence at the Israeli-Lebanese border between Hezbollah and the Israeli army.
Efforts to clear the rubble around the town of Al-Kfour are ongoing in search of missing persons.
The Israeli army, for its part, stated that it struck “overnight, a Hezbollah weapons depot” in the Nabatieh region, as well as “military structures” of the pro-Iranian group in the Hanine and Maroun al-Ras areas near the border.
With this new strike, these hostilities have resulted in at least 579 deaths in Lebanon, mostly Hezbollah fighters but also at least 121 civilians, according to an AFP count.
#LEBANON– The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced on Saturday that an Israeli strike in the Nabatieh region, in the south of the country, caused the deaths of at least nine people, including a woman and her two children. pic.twitter.com/Tmq6r62Vb1
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